Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. Twitter resurfaces things and can drive old content viral. I guess it wasn’t in their DNA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Join the conversation with Community Forums. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. By having frequent conversations with experts in your industry, you rank yourself among the top, and show you are connected.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 29, 2013

In a face to face networking situation, this would be how you enter the conversation. Then consider what the logical progression of the conversation would be after the offer’s been made. When you compare the value per customer with Dan Zarrella’s aggregate Click Through Data, you see a very revealing story.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Indeed, historically, Twitter traffic has had one of the lowest conversion rates compared to other social media giants. Yet Twitter can be a reliable source of both clicks and conversions. I still use hashtags for tweeting my articles but keep conversion-oriented tweets (i.e., How to earn clicks and conversions on Twitter.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

However, for the trials that they did receive they were successful at converting them to closed deals at the expected conversion rate. Peeling back another layer, they will tell you that the number of trials is equal to the visitors to the site x the conversion rate of those visitors to trials. But this can be expensive to increase.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

We are always striving to boost conversion rates and encourage users to engage more. 77% of Users Believe Social Login Is A Good Registration Solution… … and should be offered by any website, according to the same aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz. Source: Imagescape.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Governor Cuomo, governor of New York State, USA, highlighted the quintessential issue with the coronavirus pandemic in his conversation with Howard Stern on 13 April 2020. Unfortunately, these numbers seem to be increasing rapidly without an end in sight.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

We are always striving to boost conversion rates and encourage users to engage more. 77% of users believe social login is a good registration solution… …and should be offered by any website, according to the aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz. Screenshot from: SurveyMonkey. Image source.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2015

While anyone can pay to commission an infographic, there are certain factors you need to consider if you want your infographic to become a viral success! It’s important to remember that not every fact and statistic will make a good visualization, and conversely, not every great visualization will fit within the narrative of your infographic.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

We ran A/B tests around the clock on our free-trial funnel for nine months and got these wins: Quadrupled monthly lead volume in one year; Tripled the conversion rate from visitor-to-trial signups on our homepage. This thing crushed sign-up conversions. We never got the conversions back. I Will Teach You to Be Rich. Maybe not.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Six Tips For Improving High Bounce / Low Conversion Web Pages. Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. Is Conversion Rate Enough? Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics! Stop Obsessing About Conversion Rate. Tip #15: Measure Latent Conversions & Visitor Behavior.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2015

These are the days of the meticulously crafted Likes and Shares and the cautionary tales of intimate affairs gone viral and private pictures haunting teenage girls. This is the time of the carefully thought out posts, the manicured pictures, and the well-formulated responses. If a Dog is Man’s Friend Then….

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Whats the right set of materials, conversations, etc.

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klinger.io

JANUARY 17, 2014

Conversion Rates, Landing Page Optimizations, Funnel Optimizations, Viral Loops, Quick questions and insights are they typical examples of usecases of exploration. If you sell not to people but to companies you want to aggregate your users into those company buckets. eg “What feature is most used?”. About Data integrity.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. No respected ecommerce entity can live without a hard core focus on acquisition strategies that are powered by out-of-sights from Assisted Conversions data. It is not hard to pick New Subscriptions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

You can find my conversation with Sam in that format below. I wanted to start with a recent conversation I had with Sam Altman. Our conversation focuses on what investors can do, but also what all of us can do to help lead in a time like this. Here's my conversation with Sam Altman.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The self-assessment methodology, pioneered by Village Capital, is called VIRAL, for “Venture Investment Readiness and Awareness Levels.” . Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page; Point Nine Capital uses Recruitee for the same purpose.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

But that’s just aggregate information, not totally useful because it’s not your specific industry. Kind of like a good conversion rate in that sense, then. Seeing an improvement in your aggregate NPS is nice, but the real value comes in the feedback from follow up questions. Well, What’s Wrong With NPS? Find and Fix Issues.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

” In conversion optimization , we talk about the importance of knowing our customers a lot. Like data segmentation , audience segmentation makes it easier to uncover optimization opportunities that you might not see when looking at aggregate data. Segmentation has many benefits.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

" And we oblige: "Conversion Rate, that's it." Conversion Rate <-> Average Order Value. Our returning champion, Conversion Rate! Everyone loves Conversion Rate!!! Conversion Rate is money, sometimes directly as revenue and other times indirectly via Leads collected. And they should.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. 90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. We do twice-yearly reviews of all Fab team members.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

These are effective tools to use, for example, if you notice that people are liking the post but for some reason not clicking through to the link – then you can determine what you need to do to achieve that conversion! It trolls the web and targets each conversation that is talking about the monitor you set up.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Viral – One of the most important value drivers of any social network is the degree to which it makes content go viral.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

How do you solve the problem that there is no real authentication mechanism when a video or a photo is being shared and propagated and virally explodes on social media? I think the conversation happening on Facebook right now is incredibly polluted by people who have ill will and Ill intention. Worse when it goes viral.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

That's primarily because Tide does not truly understand how to do Conversation Marketing. They manage to get hundreds upon hundreds of comments ( Conversation Rate ) and thousands upon thousands of comment Likes ( Applause Rate ). I'm not using hundreds and thousands as metaphors… Tide is not lame.

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